in search of darn good digs

If you haven’t read our post about our summer Southwest trip, you may want to start at the beginning: A Taste of the Southwest in Two and a Half Weeks: Part I.  Part I includes our full itinerary and describes the first half of our adventure, from Phoenix to Taos.  In Part II we start […]

During our road trip this summer in the southwest U.S., we had the chance to spend three nights at Albuquerque’s newest boutique hotel, the fabulous Hotel Andaluz – as part of our search for the best independently owned hotels around the world for budget-minded travelers. We were living in luxury for close to $100 a […]

Last week we returned from our two and a half week summer trip to the Southwest – and we already want to go back.  For all those skeptics who wondered why we were traveling to the desert in the middle of the summer, the weather couldn’t have been more perfect (except for a few oven-like […]